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A work made of fancy compound satin, silk and gilt paper.

Uchishiki (Altar Cloth), Edo period (1615–1868), 1801/25

A work made of stoneware with ox blood (langyao) glaze.

Vase, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

A work made of painted plaster.

Bust of Pierre François Leonard Fontaine, 1839

Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as the fisherman Fukashichi, actually Kanawa Goro Imakuni (Ryoshi Fukashichi jitsu wa Kanawa Goro Imakuni), c. 1847/52

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

A work made of pewter.

Plates, c. 1892

Jules-Paul Brateau

A work made of cotton, machine-made net; appliquéd with plain weave; cut and drawn work filled with buttonhole bars decorated with buttonhole picots and darned points; embroidered in cross, darning, and overcast stitches; decorated with buttonhole wheels.

Fichu with Frilled Outer Edge, 1850/75

A work made of silk embroidery on woven cotton foundation.

Suzani (large embroidered hanging or cover), 19th century

A work made of georgia marble.

Figure, 1946

Isamu Noguchi

A work made of silk, plain weave with gilt-metal strip supplementary facing wefts with supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet.

Fragment, 1601/25

A work made of linen and wool, slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric wefts and supplementary wrapping weft details; edged by plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming uncut loop pile.

Fragment, Roman period (30 B.C.–641 A.D.), 4th/5th century

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in long-armed cross and running (pattern darning) stitches.

Border, Arab period (641–969)/Fatimid period (969–1171)/Ayyubid period (1171–1250)/ Mamluk period (1250–1517), 9th/13th century

A work made of silk; lampas technique.

Fragment, Ayyubid Dynasty (1171–1250), 1200/50

Coptic

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware with copper luster (maiolica).

Display Plate with the Bust of a Woman, 1500/30

A work made of black and green calfskin over triple boards with toadskin onlays; green calfskin doublures with gold stamping, with facing leaves of decorated paper simulating frog skin; paper-covered slipcase with calfskin trim and felt lining; original paper covers bound in.

La science de Dieu ou La création de l'homme (The Science of God, or The Creation of Man), Published 1900; rebound 1930-1942

Mary Reynolds

A work made of woodcut and letterpress in black, with brush and watercolor, pen and ink on ivory laid paper, in modern full alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on raised bands, with blind tooled lines in frame pattern, blind tooling and hand-lettered title on the spine, and hand-sewn linen headbands.

Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

Michel Wolgemut

A work made of printed book.

Uber das Geistige in der Kunst (About the Spiritual in Art), 1912

Vasily Kandinsky

A work made of printed book with designed cover.

Na borbu s khuliganstvom v literature (The Battle against Hooliganism in Literature), 1926

Gustav G. Klutsis

A work made of illustrated book with letterpress and stencil.

Priemy Leninskoi rechi (Devices of Lenin's Speeches), 1928

Gustav G. Klutsis

A work made of printed book with designed cover, gilt photomontage decorated boards.

Pamiati pogibshikh vozhdei (Memorial to Fallen Leaders), 1927

Gustav G. Klutsis

A work made of printed book with color photomontage wrappers.

Brigada khudozhnikov (Artist's Brigade), 1931: No. 4 (August? 1931)

El Lissitzky

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